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VC firm Neo looks to up the ante with $235M across two new funds
Neo, a six-year-old, Bay Area–based outfit founded by renowned serial entrepreneur and investor Ali Partovi, is announcing that it has garnered $235 million in capital commitments across two new fun
Expedock cinches Series A to grow its freight paperwork management platform
Since the start of the pandemic, the global supply chain has undergone — and is undergoing — immense strain. As of late last month, there were more than 300 ships in China waiting to load
Ali Partovi has a new accelerator promising to connect founders with star engineers
Ali Partovi prides himself on the many relationships he has built throughout Silicon Valley as a highly successful entrepreneur and investor. For example, two years ago, Partovi launched a program thr
Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps
Product developers want to use AI, but don't always have the right tools to do it without relying on data scientists.
Goodcall picks up $4M, Yelp partnership to answer merchant inbound calls
Goodcall’s free cloud-based conversational platform leverages artificial intelligence to manage incoming business phone calls and boost customer service while assisting to other patrons.
Newly funded OfficeTogether looks to help employees return to work safely
Amy Yin doesn’t foresee startups resuming a five-day-a-week in-office work schedule, even after COVID-19 has been battled back. It’s probably a safe bet. Many companies have learned this y
Neo’s Ali Partovi on best practices for hiring early-stage startup engineers
On day one of TechCrunch’s Early Stage virtual conference, Ali Partovi joined us to discuss best practices for startups looking to hire engineers. It’s a subject that’s near and dear to his hear
The rise of the new crypto “mafias”
Ash Egan Contributor Ash Egan leads crypto investing at Accomplice. He formerly was a VC at ConsenSys Ventures and Converge. In the early 2000s, journalists popularized the term “PayPal mafia
Another crypto exchange goes old school as KuCoin raises $20M from VCs
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: One of the biggest trends in crypto this year is companies raising money the old-fashioned way — through venture capitalists. Hot on the he
Tokens can better incentivize startup employees than equity
Token structuring and tokeneconomics are among of the most important considerations when designing a blockchain. When thinking about how best to distribute these tokens, founders often think about how
The collapse of ETH is inevitable
Jeremy Rubin Contributor Share on Twitter Jeremy Rubin is currently a technical advisor to Stellar, a Bitcoin Core Contributor, investor and advisor to early-stage crypto startups, starting a company
Neo, a new ‘communal’ venture fund by Ali Partovi, has closed with $80 million
It happens every day of the week. People who’ve been successful in tech invest in who they believe could be the tech leaders of tomorrow. Now a new fund called Neo is taking the idea to the nth
The new age of ICOs is here, and it’s not based on Ethereum
ICOs are said to be the new way to raise money. We’ve seen companies raising millions by selling tokens. Against the money raised, the tokens they gave were created and sold on the Ethereum blockcha
Affordable Car Loans: A Look At The Winner(s) Of The Founder Showcase Pitch Competition
Last night, over 500 people gathered in San Francisco for the eighth <a href="http://foundershowcase.com">Founder Showcase</a>, a quarterly startup pitch event that brings together technology CEOs, in
Mother Russia plans to save us all from killer asteroid
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/armageddon1.jpg">Someone call Bruce Willis. Russia announced Wednesday that they are considering launching a spacecraft with the intentio
Neo Technology Commercializes Next Generation Graph Based Database
A new generation of database products and companies is beginning to emerge, and one of the more interesting examples is Swedish-based Neo Technology, the developer and vendor of the neo4j graph based
HP dv2 being refreshed with new AMD Neo setup
<img alt="" src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/dv2-005.jpg" />Don't count AMD as being out. In response to the ever growing netbook/small laptop market, AMD has announced their
Openmoko Neo Freerunner to launch July 4th
Man, I loves me some Openmoko Neo Freerunner. Sure, it’s not the prettiest thing on the planet. Sure, a completely open source mobile device may be a bit ahead of the times for all but the most
New OpenMoko handset coming soon
DigiTimes is reporting that OpenMoko “plans to launch the second version of its Neo open source handset in the March-April period this year,” according to company president Sean Moss-Pultz
Neo promotional video: Now you can see the small phone move!
http://www.crunchgear.com/video/player.swf?movie=neo.flv Just converted Neo’s promo video for your wee-phone-loving edification. Don’t say I never gave you nuthin’.